A little over 7 years ago, my mom started showing severe signs of what we later discovered was Lewy body dementia. The first weekend she was hospitalized was one of the scariest, most confusing times of my life. You’ve maybe heard me say before that it was also a time when I had put God’s Word on a shelf, literally and figuratively. But late one night in the hospital, when my mom was so agitated, scared, and confused, I asked her if she wanted me to sing her a lullaby. This is the only song that would come to mind, and I could only think of the chorus. I hugged her and sang this in her ear, and it calmed her.
When you’ve lived in a house for a while, you start to develop muscle memory. Your muscles start to remember the general layout because it’s familiar. You intuitively know to reach to the left to turn on the light switch by the back door because you’ve done it a million times. That’s where we get the phrase “I could do this with my eyes closed!” You know to take a step up when there is a step because you live there.
This is the purpose of studies like this, to develop muscle memory. When you’re in a dark time in your life, I want our muscles to be trained to reach for the truth of God. We don’t have to grope around, His Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. But we have to learn it to know it. When my mom was sick, it felt like darkness. But because I had spent time in God’s Word, my mind reached for what I knew was true. For what I already knew I believed. My muscle memory didn’t fail me, because I knew and believed God doesn’t fail.
I’ve enjoyed doing this study with all of you. I’ve learned a lot and my muscle memory is in better shape. We have this statement of truth in common now, forever tied together by what we believe. I promise to help any of you when you’re going through a dark time to remind you of what you believe, to help reactivate your muscle memory if you feel weak. I pray you will do the same for me.
God’s Word. First in our minds, First in our hearts, First out of our mouths. So we believe and so we also speak.
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